Collector Joe McMurrey never forgot the rush of riding in his best friend’s Hemi Road Runner when they were young and invincible, so when he discovered this magnificently restored and meticulously maintained 1970 example looking for a new home, he snapped it up. Built at the Lynch Road assembly plant, it is one of 75 Hemi Road Runner hardtops produced that year and one of 16 equipped with the heavy-duty Torqueflite automatic. With Air Grabber-fed dual inline Carter 4-barrel carburetors and an improved hydraulic cam, the 1970 Hemi engine far exceeded its 425 HP rating and really came alive with the 4.10:1 gears in the A32 Super Performance Axle Package, and this car’s five-alarm FE5 Rallye Red paint turns up the visual heat. Also optioned with Rallye wheels and Goodyear Polyglas GT F60-15 tires, black stripes, tinted glass and a Chrysler Solid State AM radio, in 1988 the car was acquired by Russ Muller of Harleysville, Pennsylvania, from a private collector. Muller, who at the time was the parts manager at Souderton Dodge in the Pennsylvania town of the same name, had owned about a dozen Hemi Mopars, and he bought the car with the aim of restoring it and adding a few personal touches. Eight years and tens of thousands of dollars later, he completed the meticulous restoration in the mid-‘90s to spectacular results. The Road Runner was exactly as he had envisioned it, finished as original in Rallye Red. Muller added his personal touch inside, replacing the original column shifter and bench seat with bucket seats and center console with shifter, and new Legendary Interiors vinyl upholstery professionally installed by Wismers of Pennsylvania. Featured in the March 1995 issue of “High Performance Mopar,” this highly desirable Hemi Road Runner is documented in the Chrysler Registry.

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